Conspicuous consumption of music, live and otherwise.

December 11, 2015

Ten albums without which 2015 would have been less rich, and more.

Today - Friday, December 11 - the Boston Globe posted lists of the best albums of 2015 as selected by six critics: staffers James Reed, Sarah Rodman, and Jeremy Eichler, plus regular contributors Julian Benbow, Jon Garelick, and Siddhartha Mitter. Those lists will all be in this Sunday's print edition, too.

Last year, I was able to slip a list of my own into print, in the context of my then-extant monthly series "Newer Music" With that column now discontinued, a listing of the records that moved me most in 2015 migrates to the one place over which I retain complete control.

I'd love to think that I'll come back to these lists and add helpful little blurbs, but given my track record of late, if I hesitate I might never get this posted, or at least not in 2015. And so, without further ado...